The Southwest Conference Cross Country meet was held at Broken Bow on October 4 with temperatures in the mid 30s, nearly 60 degrees cooler than 24 hours earlier when the thermometer registered 93. Minden’s boys tied for the conference championship with Ainsworth, each scoring 38 points. A tie-breaker that compares each team’s fifth runner determined Ainsworth, by seven hundreths of a second, would receive the first place plaque. Broken Bow (45) and Cozad (56) were third and fourth. Aidan Wheelock and Ainsworth’s Ben Arens dueled for the third straight year to determine the individual champ. Wheelock won in 2016 and 2017 but this time around Arens came through the chute first clocking 15:56 to Wheelock’s 16:14.